Crain’s Chicago seeks a health care reporter

Crain’s Chicago Business is seeking an ambitious and knowledgeable reporter to take on one of the publication’s core beats: health care.

The full-time staff reporter will play the lead role in producing an inside-industry newsletter; the reporter will write daily for this email, providing subscribers with health care news before the competition.

As well, the reporter will write breaking news for Crain’s website, and analytical trend and enterprise pieces for the weekly print issue. The reporter also will take the lead on programming live health care events and advise Crain’s custom media on an as-needed basis.

The beat’s primary subjects: Hospitals, physicians practices, health insurance providers, regulators, pharmaceutical and medical products makers, academic institutions, and biotech startups in the metro Chicago market. Across all of them, the health care reporter must focus on the business of health care.

The reporter must be a self-starter and curious, and be able develop sources, multitask, and work closely with Crain’s editors.

Basic Qualifications

3 + years of experience in business journalism

Bachelor’s degree in journalism or the arts

Skilled at generating story ideas, writing cleanly and coherently, developing sources, breaking news, and working quickly with minimum supervision

Experience writing for all platforms: digital, print, newsletters

Experience writing analytical trend and enterprise pieces as well as breaking news stories

Must understand financial and business terminology

Ability to travel as needed within metro Chicago

Ability to work in newsroom during standard office hours and as needed outside of those hours

Portfolio / examples of recent and relevant work which demonstrates business journalism experience

Preferences

Background covering health care beat in Chicago or a wealth of information on health care in Chicago

A deep contact list in the industry

An obvious familiarity with ChicagoBusiness.com and Crain’s Chicago Business: what and who we cover

The more scoops you’ve generated in your current job or previous jobs, the better

Chris Roush is the Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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